Whatever about doing the prank in the first place, it’s even worse to go to the Gardai acting the victim.
Assault? That’s a joke.
This is the reason we have such a bad anti-social behaviour problem. Can’t say boo to them and they know it.
What is wrong with kids these days, “he grabbed my jumper, better go crying to the guards”, he should have been told to fuck off, kid needs to learn actions have reactions.
Grabbing a young fella by the jumper and demanding they cop on before someone gets killed is now chargable as assault. Fuck me. Pushing women under trains seems OK though in the eyes of the courts.
I bet it was one of the kids parents and would full explain why they are little shits.
If I ever get pissed off at a group of teens im trading blows. Guess I’m going to get fucked in court if pulling on a jumper is assault
It’s always good to just not touch other people. Even if you feel compelled, just don’t..just keep yer fucking hands in yer pockets
OK, he should not have grabbed the kid, but surely the “pranksters”, should also be up in court for blocking a road, which could have caused an accident. Letting them away with this, will just encourage this nonsense.
So. those pranking are the victims here.
The victims report should be an interesting read.
This type of sentencing is what enables anti social behaviour. Little shits in this country can go around causing havoc with little to no consequences.
“…to allow for a victim impact report”
Oh the poor thing, did he get a fright when he was actually confronted about his actions, aww poor fella, it must be so hard on him, probably not eating or sleeping bless him, how will he ever recover from such a horrific experience?
Victim impact report. Get fucked.
There was a bunch of young lads doing this on a road near me probably around 2021. I didn’t know it was a tiktok prank.
I accelerated instead of slowing down. There is no good reason to be pulling a “rope” across a road. There was no way I was stopping to be potentially robbed or any other unknown reason.
I rang the guards on way back home to alert them in case another person did actually stop.
Crazy to be charged with assault for that poor man. And the pranksters go unpunished for a situation they caused.
Jesus wept. Grabbing a jumper is now assault?
Those kids were possibly going to cause an accident.
So a 61 year old man seeing a group of youths trying to barricade a road to prey on vulnerable elderly folk took matters into his own hands to protect his elderly neighbours by giving chase and detaining one of the individuals involved in the attempted car jacking.
Well-done to that elderly man.
It all depends on how the incident is seen. Kids see it as a prank someone else sees it as a memory when cars were hijacked for joy riding.
>Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told
Am I missing something here? This seems to be incredibly innocent. The reaction from the driver seems somewhat disproportionate and the reaction of this subreddit seems incredibly disproportionate.
“A bemused Judge Cunningham admitted that she was not familiar with the workings of the prank.”
Enough said
>Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told
Ah here. He hopped out and chased a bunch of kids pulling that one? Is he brand new or something? That’s not just older than TikTok, I’d bet kids have been pulling that one since the the invention of the rope.
I think a lot of you are seriously losing the run of yourself here. You are talking assaulting literal children simply for doing a pulling gesture of the side of the road. Of course, this is assault. It’s way overboard what is a less than harmless prank.
“Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told”
Ffs I remember doing this as a kid and most people would laugh it off , chasing down a teenager and grabbing them for such an innocent prank is not right .
Parents of the teenagers are a DISGRACE. Probably out drinking.
Next will be water balloons fights classed as ballistic weapon assaults.
Seems a bit ridiculous this went to court. Stupid teenager pulls stupid teenage prank and causes a man to fear he’d be in an accident, angry man grabs stupid teenager and causes him to fear he’d be getting a beating, man tells stupid teenager to quit doing stupid dangerous shite, everyone goes their own way with no actual harm done to anyone, and, in a perfect world, hopefully the teenager learns a valuable lesson that their stupid actions can have unpleasant consequences and thus becomes somewhat less stupid, as is tradition.
I seen this earlier and seen mention of the next court sitting they’ll have a victim impact statement.
At first I took the driver as the victim and then it dawned on me, is that little toerags parents really encouraging a victim statement??? My child would be grounded and told to learn a very valuable lesson from it all !!!!
Back in my day, we would do all sorts of nonsense like this. The difference is we didn’t go the guards when someone would grab us or smack us around the head. What an absolute softie
lol in fairness we did this all the time in the 90s
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TikTok prank me hole. We were doing that 15 years ago and I’m sure we weren’t the first generation.
Most people laughed when they got caught and it was only assholes that got out of their cars.
That said, we only ever tried this on main streets in villages, so if it was done on a main road I can see the danger.
“She adjourned the case until March 19 to allow for a victim impact report in the case.”
Is this from the jumper?
Lol, to the people on here who are always saying that many are blowing things out of proportion when it comes to the dire state of law an order, and that you can fight back – here you go. You fight back and you end up prosecuted while the scumbag walks free.
“However, the prank backfired and the driver of the car ended up in court.” But it didn’t though…the kids will be delighted they caused this unknown person grief and all the better that they have the endorsement of their parents and the support of the legal system to continue the “prank”. So funny….
What a bunch of pussys. Acting the mad bastards then taking yer man to court when there confronted
And you wonder why these feral kids have no fear.
60+ , ill old man, in for an assault …jfk
*A bemused Judge Cunningham admitted that she was not familiar with the workings of the prank.*
a logic…a simple logic. same as , imagine bus coming at you, is that dangerous or not.
so now imagine, pretentious, dangerous object/situation on a road caused by “joke” for old man to react , hopefully adequately and not drive on a side an kill someone.
logic…fkn logic…
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we need to go on 19th march and let them know what we think of this. ridiculous.
Most pranks are a form of assault these days. Particularly this one which put the driver in fear of bodily injury. (If he was to be decapitated by tension steel wire for instance). In this case it seems obvious the driver acted in self defence and protected the public from harm as he saw it. The teenagers should be locked up for assault.
The judges remarks are bewildering. How can she not underatand the mechanics of the prank, it’s as plain as day.
Hardly a tik tok prank we used to do that 20 odd years ago and we didn’t make it up so assume it goes back way before Tik Tok
Some little bollix threw a stone straight at me driving down the road one day. I got out and lobbed the remainder of the apple I was eating in his direction, it landed on the ground. An hour later the guards were at MY door. I had to apologise to this little scrote in the garda station. Fuck this world.
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Whatever about doing the prank in the first place, it’s even worse to go to the Gardai acting the victim.
Assault? That’s a joke.
This is the reason we have such a bad anti-social behaviour problem. Can’t say boo to them and they know it.
What is wrong with kids these days, “he grabbed my jumper, better go crying to the guards”, he should have been told to fuck off, kid needs to learn actions have reactions.
Grabbing a young fella by the jumper and demanding they cop on before someone gets killed is now chargable as assault. Fuck me. Pushing women under trains seems OK though in the eyes of the courts.
I bet it was one of the kids parents and would full explain why they are little shits.
If I ever get pissed off at a group of teens im trading blows. Guess I’m going to get fucked in court if pulling on a jumper is assault
It’s always good to just not touch other people. Even if you feel compelled, just don’t..just keep yer fucking hands in yer pockets
OK, he should not have grabbed the kid, but surely the “pranksters”, should also be up in court for blocking a road, which could have caused an accident. Letting them away with this, will just encourage this nonsense.
So. those pranking are the victims here.
The victims report should be an interesting read.
This type of sentencing is what enables anti social behaviour. Little shits in this country can go around causing havoc with little to no consequences.
“…to allow for a victim impact report”
Oh the poor thing, did he get a fright when he was actually confronted about his actions, aww poor fella, it must be so hard on him, probably not eating or sleeping bless him, how will he ever recover from such a horrific experience?
Victim impact report. Get fucked.
There was a bunch of young lads doing this on a road near me probably around 2021. I didn’t know it was a tiktok prank.
I accelerated instead of slowing down. There is no good reason to be pulling a “rope” across a road. There was no way I was stopping to be potentially robbed or any other unknown reason.
I rang the guards on way back home to alert them in case another person did actually stop.
Crazy to be charged with assault for that poor man. And the pranksters go unpunished for a situation they caused.
Jesus wept. Grabbing a jumper is now assault?
Those kids were possibly going to cause an accident.
So a 61 year old man seeing a group of youths trying to barricade a road to prey on vulnerable elderly folk took matters into his own hands to protect his elderly neighbours by giving chase and detaining one of the individuals involved in the attempted car jacking.
Well-done to that elderly man.
It all depends on how the incident is seen. Kids see it as a prank someone else sees it as a memory when cars were hijacked for joy riding.
>Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told
Am I missing something here? This seems to be incredibly innocent. The reaction from the driver seems somewhat disproportionate and the reaction of this subreddit seems incredibly disproportionate.
“A bemused Judge Cunningham admitted that she was not familiar with the workings of the prank.”
Enough said
>Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told
Ah here. He hopped out and chased a bunch of kids pulling that one? Is he brand new or something? That’s not just older than TikTok, I’d bet kids have been pulling that one since the the invention of the rope.
The article says it happened on the [New Road in Carndonagh](https://www.google.com/maps/@55.2503794,-7.2630907,143m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu). It’s not exactly a motorway like. He’d want to cop on a bit if he’s chasing down kids over this kind of prank.
The judicial system is broken.
I think a lot of you are seriously losing the run of yourself here. You are talking assaulting literal children simply for doing a pulling gesture of the side of the road. Of course, this is assault. It’s way overboard what is a less than harmless prank.
“Man became outraged at a group of teenagers pretending to hold an invisible rope across a road and chased one of the youths and grabbed him by his jumper, court told”
Ffs I remember doing this as a kid and most people would laugh it off , chasing down a teenager and grabbing them for such an innocent prank is not right .
Parents of the teenagers are a DISGRACE. Probably out drinking.
Next will be water balloons fights classed as ballistic weapon assaults.
Seems a bit ridiculous this went to court. Stupid teenager pulls stupid teenage prank and causes a man to fear he’d be in an accident, angry man grabs stupid teenager and causes him to fear he’d be getting a beating, man tells stupid teenager to quit doing stupid dangerous shite, everyone goes their own way with no actual harm done to anyone, and, in a perfect world, hopefully the teenager learns a valuable lesson that their stupid actions can have unpleasant consequences and thus becomes somewhat less stupid, as is tradition.
I seen this earlier and seen mention of the next court sitting they’ll have a victim impact statement.
At first I took the driver as the victim and then it dawned on me, is that little toerags parents really encouraging a victim statement??? My child would be grounded and told to learn a very valuable lesson from it all !!!!
Back in my day, we would do all sorts of nonsense like this. The difference is we didn’t go the guards when someone would grab us or smack us around the head. What an absolute softie
lol in fairness we did this all the time in the 90s
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TikTok prank me hole. We were doing that 15 years ago and I’m sure we weren’t the first generation.
Most people laughed when they got caught and it was only assholes that got out of their cars.
That said, we only ever tried this on main streets in villages, so if it was done on a main road I can see the danger.
“She adjourned the case until March 19 to allow for a victim impact report in the case.”
Is this from the jumper?
Lol, to the people on here who are always saying that many are blowing things out of proportion when it comes to the dire state of law an order, and that you can fight back – here you go. You fight back and you end up prosecuted while the scumbag walks free.
“However, the prank backfired and the driver of the car ended up in court.” But it didn’t though…the kids will be delighted they caused this unknown person grief and all the better that they have the endorsement of their parents and the support of the legal system to continue the “prank”. So funny….
What a bunch of pussys. Acting the mad bastards then taking yer man to court when there confronted
And you wonder why these feral kids have no fear.
60+ , ill old man, in for an assault …jfk
*A bemused Judge Cunningham admitted that she was not familiar with the workings of the prank.*
a logic…a simple logic. same as , imagine bus coming at you, is that dangerous or not.
so now imagine, pretentious, dangerous object/situation on a road caused by “joke” for old man to react , hopefully adequately and not drive on a side an kill someone.
logic…fkn logic…
​
we need to go on 19th march and let them know what we think of this. ridiculous.
Most pranks are a form of assault these days. Particularly this one which put the driver in fear of bodily injury. (If he was to be decapitated by tension steel wire for instance). In this case it seems obvious the driver acted in self defence and protected the public from harm as he saw it. The teenagers should be locked up for assault.
The judges remarks are bewildering. How can she not underatand the mechanics of the prank, it’s as plain as day.
Hardly a tik tok prank we used to do that 20 odd years ago and we didn’t make it up so assume it goes back way before Tik Tok
Some little bollix threw a stone straight at me driving down the road one day. I got out and lobbed the remainder of the apple I was eating in his direction, it landed on the ground. An hour later the guards were at MY door. I had to apologise to this little scrote in the garda station. Fuck this world.